Just one of the books I picked out from the books left behind by Inese Jansons. These one to two page fables are a feminist stream of consciousness on the fairy tales, legends, fables from around the world. Most were familiar. Namjoshi doesn't necessarily try to retell the tale, just takes some aspect and comments on it.
- The post Red Riding hood story written up as a case history: "Grandmother dead. Wolf not dead. Wolf marries mother. R. not happy..."
- If the princess was so sensitive that she felt the pea under all those mattresses, then she would probably be unbearably sensitive to everything.
- The fisherman's wife of the guy with the three wishes really just wants a divorce.
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